Statistical Properties of the King Wen Sequence: An Anti-Habituation Structure That Does Not Improve Neural Network Training

arXiv:2604.09234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The King Wen sequence of the I-Ching (c. 1000 BC) orders 64 hexagrams -- states of a six-dimensional binary space -- in a pattern that has puzzled scholars for three millennia. We present a rigorous statistical characterization of this ordering using Monte Carlo permutation analysis against 100,000 random baselines. We find that the sequence has four statistically significant properties: higher-than-random transition distance (98.2nd percentile),